System information

49Chapter 2 Getting Ready for Mac OS X Server
Service Initial server setup Server Preferences Server Admin
VPN (secure remote
access)
No Yes Yes
Web (wikis, blogs,
webmail)
Optional Yes Yes
Xgrid (computational
clustering)
No No Yes
Preparing Disks for Mac OS X Server
If you’re going to install Mac OS X Server on an existing computer and want a clean
installation, you need to erase the disk you’ll install on. You can use the Disk Utility
application before installing locally or use Server Assistant while installing remotely.
If the server has multiple disks that you want to erase and format, or if you want to
partition the server’s disk into multiple volumes or set up a RAID set, you can use Disk
Utility before installing.
Note: The Installer won’t erase the disk for you before it installs Snow Leopard Server.
If you don’t want to upgrade Mac OS X Server on an existing server, be sure to use Disk
Utility to erase the disk before installing.
Erasing with Disk Utility
You can erase disks and partition hard drives with Disk Utility while installing Mac OS X
Server locally. You open Disk Utility by choosing it from the Utilities menu of the
Installer. You can erase the startup disk using these formats: